Chords with lyrics
Standard tuning.
Capo at 6 if you wanna match with the song.
Or just put your capo on a fret that matches with your voice.
(Verse 1)
C majorC G/BG/B
Mama called about the paper turns out they wrote about me
?Am
Now my broken heart´s the only thing that's broke about me
?C G/BG/B
So many people should have seen what we got going on
?Am
I only wanna put my heart and my life in songs
?C G/BG/B
Writing about the pain I felt with my daddy gone
?Am
About the emptiness I felt when I sat alone
?C G/BG/B
About the happiness i feel when I sing it loud
?Am
He should have heard the noise we made with the happy crowd
(Chorus)?
FF G+G
Did my grandaddy know he taught me what a poem was
?Em A minorAm
How you can use a sentence or just a simple pause
?F G+G
What will I say when my kids ask me who my daddy was
?Em A minorAm
I thought about it for a while and I'm at a loss
?F G+G
Knowing that I´m gonna live my whole life without him
?Em A minorAm
I found out a lot of things I never knew about him
?F G+G
All I know is that I´ll never really be alone
?Em A minorAm
Cause we gotta lot of love and a happy home ?
C majorC G/BG/B A minorAm
C majorC G/BG/B A minorAm
?(Verse 2)
C majorC G/BG/B
Magazines are writing stuff but I don´t ever read them
?Am
Some of the folks I used to know would see and start believing
?C G/BG/B
That I would pass them by on streets and never reach to greet them
?Am
I still remember folks even though I rarely meet them
?C G/BG/B
Don´t you know I miss the times when we used to hang
?Am
Before twenty deep depended on a single man
?C G/BG/B
Before a single heart was broken by a single blow
?Am
Before all our careers depended on a single show ?
(Chorus)
FF G+G
I grew up with a lot of love in a happy home
?Em A minorAm
Now I got a lot of cash and I'm on a road
?F G+G
I realize privacy´s becoming difficult
?Em A minorAm
It´s all right now but what about when I´m old
?F G+G
I know my good friends now they´ll last
?Em A minorAm
the same ones that stood by me when my daddy past
?F G+G
All I know is that we´ll never really be alone ?
E minorEm A minorAm
Cause we got a lot of love and a happy home ?
C majorC G/BG/B A minorAm
C majorC G/BG/B Am?
(Verse 3)
C majorC G/BG/B
I write a lot of songs will anybody ever read them
?Am
You hear them on the radio but will you really read them
?C G/BG/B
Why do we have our idols and why do we wanna be them ?
A minorAm
After we see them on TV we really wanna meet them ?
C majorC G/BG/B
Don´t you think they miss the time when they used to hang
?Am
Before a fan base depended on a single man
?C G/BG/B
Before a single heart was broken by a single show?
A minorAm
Who´s gonna stand who´s gonna fall I really wanna know ?
(Chorus)
FF G+G
I grew up with a lot of love in a happy home
?Em A minorAm
My daddy use to play me vinyl but now daddy´s gone
?F G+G
I used to practice with my mommy on the piano
?Em A minorAm
I still get nervous every time I know she´s at a show
?F G+G
Now my family comes first before everyone
?Em A minorAm
I had the perfect dad I wanna be the perfect son
?F G+G
Though I really feel sometimes I am on my own
?Em A minorAm